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5 Agentic AI Security Incidents & Vulnerabilities

Curity 2026-08-03 prompt injection High

Executive Summary

Curity summarizes agentic AI incidents including prompt injection in GitHub's Agentic Workflows and the GitHub MCP server that could leak private repository data, and Salesforce Agentforce prompt injection.

What Happened

This post summarizes several agentic AI security issues, including prompt injection in GitHub’s Agentic Workflows and the GitHub MCP server that could leak private repository data. It also discusses Salesforce Agentforce prompt injection and other incidents involving untrusted content influencing agent behavior.

Affected Products

  • GitHub Agentic Workflows
  • GitHub MCP server
  • Salesforce Agentforce

Vulnerability / Attack Technique

Prompt injection causing private data leaks

Technical Mechanism

Untrusted content such as issues or records influenced agents with access to private repositories or CRM data, leading to disclosure.

AI Security Category

LLM01:2025 Prompt Injection

Part of the Prompt Injection topic.

Part of the MCP Security topic.

Relevant Frameworks

LLM01:2025 Prompt InjectionLLM02:2025 Sensitive Information Disclosure

RealGround Analysis

Agents connected to private data and public input are the recurring pattern. RealGround analysis: separate agents that read public content from those with private data access.

Recommended Controls

  • Scope MCP server tokens to the repositories an agent needs
  • Do not let agents act on public issues with private-repo access
  • Apply vendor fixes for GitHub and Salesforce agent features

Related RealGround Service

Secure AI Agent Build · or start with the free AI Agent Security Scanner.

Sources

Curity: https://curity.io/blog/5-agentic-ai-security-incidents-and-vulnerabilities/

Summary and analysis written by RealGround from the source above; last updated 2026-10-17.

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